Living donation challenges the ethical principle of non-maleficence in that it exposes healthy
persons to risks for the benefit of someone else. This makes safety, informed consent (IC) …

In-depth knowledge of what it means to patients to receive health care services is crucial to
the development of adequate protocols for nursing. Qualitative research allows us to gain …

Living kidney donors (LKDs) undertake a complex and multifaceted journey when pursuing
donation and have several unmet healthcare needs. A comprehensive understanding of …

Background Living-donor transplantation is the best treatment option in patients with chronic
kidney failure. Global data show that women are less likely to be kidney recipients than men …

Background A prolonged living kidney donor evaluation may result in worse outcomes for
transplant recipients. Better knowledge of the duration of this process may help inform future …

Patients with dementia as co-morbidity find hospital stays challenging, because the focus is
primarily on the somatic cause for the admission, with less emphasis on the needs …

Background A better understanding of the consequences of being turned down for living
kidney donation could help transplant professionals to counsel individuals considering …

Background The shortage of organs from deceased donors has led to more living donation.
Furthermore, immunological developments have made it possible to perform kidney …

Results We identified 16 process indicators (eg, average time to evaluate a donor
candidate), eight outcome indicators (eg, annual number of preemptive living kidney donor …

Methods We conducted a scoping review to map the published literature to different themes
related to an efficient donor candidate evaluation. We reviewed the websites of living donor …